So, for some context, I work at an accounting company that provides tech services to banks. Really tiring shit but it was the only thing where they didn’t ask you for 100 years of previous experience to enter an entry-level position.
A couple of days ago the CEO came for an annual visit and gave a conference, which was 2 hours of generic corporate crap in the world’s most uncomfortable chairs (the only one that probably benefited from that meeting was the local chiropractor). I’m pretty sure the word “growth” was said at least 20 times, and I’m starting to genuinely hate that word.
The interesting bit is that, at the end, the guy answered some questions that were send beforehand by the employees’ and other bosses. One of them was if he saw the benefits of using AI.
He fucking admitted he did not see those benefits, but then said immediately afterwards that the company had to use it because the competitors were using it.
Thankfully the project I work at is such a mess that they don’t have the time to add AI to the workflow.
Having a hard time figuring out what you do. Are you techs or accounts? Or is the tech a spinoff division of the accounting firm?
I guess more on the “tech” side, we mostly just solve requests from banks, most of them are repetitive tasks or fixing some weird incident. I call it “customer support without seeing the customer”.
I bet they use Excel really well, but hide it behind a pretty web portal.
I can imagine accounting companies that get brought in as business consultants, then use the opening to upsell technical solutions.